{"product_id":"leo-kottke-6-and-12-string-guitar","title":"Leo Kottke 6 and 12 String Guitar","description":"Solo performer: Leo Kottke (acoustic 6 \u0026amp; 12-string guitars).\r\nRecorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024). Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey and original release liner notes by Leo Kottke.\r\nThis is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.\r\nSolo performer: Leo Kottke (acoustic 6 \u0026amp; 12-string guitars).\r\nRecorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024).\r\nWith the 1969 release of 6-AND 12 STRING GUITAR, Leo Kottke established his pre-eminence as a guitar virtuoso and composer of quirky, pop-inflected pieces. Harmonically adventurous and technically dazzling, this album showcases Kottke's penchant for infusing traditional elements of folk guitar with more modern, even impressionistic harmony and tonality. Kottke inspired a revolution in acoustic guitar playing, and this record provided the opening volley.\r\n\"The Driving of the Year Nail\" starts things off with a relentless fingerpicked chug, featuring splashes of open harmonics executed with the delicacy of a ballerina. Kottke proceeds to combine the familiar with the strange--each of these brief pieces (around three minutes and under) has the effect of being simultaneously charming, and a little twisted. For example, \"Vaseline Machine Gun\" starts with \"Taps\" played with a bottleneck slide, then morphs into a thumb-and-slide frenzy. Bach's \"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring\" is the exception, given a straight and loving reading on six-string guitar. This is pure steel-string joy, with liberal doses of irony and ecstasy.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 09\/16\/2011\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Pop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRSD Date: n\/a\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Leo Kottke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48923953889569,"sku":"DFAWXA-VPTN-N7","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/5099\/0625\/files\/leo-kottke-6-and-12-string-guitar_IIviY.jpg?v=1740200206","url":"https:\/\/birds-nest-records.myshopify.com\/products\/leo-kottke-6-and-12-string-guitar","provider":"Bird's Nest Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}